Strange xterm behaviour

Hi, I am facing some problems with xterm (3.3.3) on my slink machine. I run icewm as my window manager. When I invoke xterm from the menu, and run mc, I do not see the standard blue color. If I invoke xterm from an rxvt and then run mc, I get to see the colours. The colours are also missing when

Re: Debhelper for slink

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote: What was the error message? Script started on Wed Nov 3 11:24:08 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cd debhelper-2.0.67 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/debhelper-2.0.67$ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary sh -e debian/fixlinks touch link-stamp ./dh_clean rm -f

Debhelper for slink

Hi, I tried compiling the latest version of debhelper (from potato) under slink and could not succeed. Is there anything that I should upgrade before I can do that? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore,

PCI512 Card

Hi, I am trying to use a Creative PCI512 card under slink. The accompanying literature says that it is identical to the SBLive. So I tried the driver downloaded from Creative site (0.2b) under kernel 2.2.5 as per the docs. But the module does not load with a message 'Device busy' and/or something

Strange bash prompt

Hi, I noticed a strange behaviour of bash regrding the prompt. I have set PS1='\h:\w$ '. With that I get both the host name and the working directory as my shell prompt. Yesterday I noticed a strange behaviour accidentally. The sequence is given below: mysxrd:~$ cd /var mysxrd:/var$

apt starngeness

Hi, I upgraded one of my system from hamm to slink via the apt method as suggested in README.upgrade by following method: 1. Installed the new apt package on the cd 2. After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to my cdrom, did apt-get update apt-get -f

Printing under slink

Hi, Under hamm, I could print plain text files with the command lpr filename. After upgrading to slink, the printer does not print anything with the same command. lpq shows that the job is pending. If I try to do lprm job_num, the system does not respond. I have to press ctrl-c, to get back the

Fetchmail problems

Hi, I upgraded my hamm system to slink. Everything went well. The old configurations generated by ppconfig run equally well under the new system also. But I am having some trouble with regard to getting the mail from my isp. This has happened after upgrading to slink. When I do a fetchmail, I get

Where is telnet, ftp?

Hi, I upgraded my hamm system (Debian 2.0) to slink (Debian 2.1) using the cd's from Linux Central. Everything went well. I am having some problems with the system after upgrading which seem strange. 1. After upgrading, I cannot find the program telnet. Previously it was in netstd, but the

Kernel compilation

Hello, I am currently using Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.0.34. I downloaded the patch files and patched the kernel source to 2.0.36. No problems encountered during the patching. Even appled the debian patch. Then I used make menuconfig and set up all the options that I needed including kerneld

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

Hi, IIRC, to add an user to a group, the syntax is adduser username groupname I have done that to add users to floppy, audio, etc. From the man page of adduser . Add an existing user to an existing group If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add

Help with CD writing

Hello, I am using an ide cd-writer (HP7100i) to burn cd's. I have recompiled the kernel (2.0.34) with scsi emulation enabled. So far I am able to burn cd's after making an image of the files/directories I need to burn using mkisofs. I have some problems/questions for which I need some

Re: diff.gz file size

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, David Wright wrote: No idea, but it's important not to unzip these files because the checksums don't work anymore. If you want to browse them, either make a copy before unzipping, or, better, use mc which will do this magically on the fly. But it still does not answer my

Re: Using Procmail

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jeremy wrote: Maybe an example will help... Here, fetchmail connects to ISP's mail over to procmail. Here are the lines out of my .procmailrc which puts all mail from this list into it's own folder: As mentioned earlier, the mail is received on the spool correctly. But

diff.gz file size

Hello, I am facing some problem with regard to gzip. I dowmloaded the icewm-0.9.33 files from debian archive. Netscape, unzipped the diff.gz file while downloading. To get on with the compilation, I just gzipped the diff file. But, the size in the dsc file and the actual size vary. So I thought

Using Procmail

Hi, Currently I am using fetchmail and pine to get the mail from my isp account and to read/send the messages respectively. As the number of messages I am getting has increased, I am feeling the need to use procmail to sort the mail into different folders. How do I go about putting the messages

[Off-topic] Creating a print file

Hi, Occassionally I have to take printout on a printer (non-postscript, like deskjet, dotmatrix, etc) connected to a machine running dos/windows. It is in a different place and not connected to my machine. Under dos/win, I could do a Create print file and then do copy/b file.prn lpt1 to get the

Compiling Vim 5.4c

Hello, I tried compiling Vim-5.4c and could not succeed. When I type make (after configure), the program aborts when trying to compile getchar.c where it tries to access a file hangulin.c. Even if itry to disable it by means of arguments to configure or through feature.h, it still tries to look

Installation problems

Hello, Recently I tried installing hamm on a colleagues machine (Pentium 200MMX, 32 MB RAM, 2GB HDD). The base installation goes without any errors. But after reboot, the problems start. The boot messages appear normal (like detecting hdd's, cdroms, etc) and I get theses messages (sorry I am not

Compiling with libc5

Hi, I wanted to compile a program on my hamm machine and ran into some problems. I found that the reason for the errors were due to libc5 dependency of the program. I installed libc5-altdev package and tried to compile the program with the following command line: gcc -nostdinc

RE: WindowMaker 0.19.1

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: Hi, I4ve posted a question about this on Saturday. You can search the wmaker 0.19 thread. That is where I got the address of the download site (from the maintainer, I think). First, I recommend you to download the Debian version of wmaker

WindowMaker 0.19.1

Hello, I am running hamm. To install the latest windowmaker, I downloaded the following files for WindowMaker 0.19.1 from http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages (as was suggested by the maintainer): libproplist0-dev_0.8.1-2.deb libproplist0_0.8.1-2.deb libwings-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb

Re: HELP with Sound Card

Hello, On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible card on the market. .. Yes, I read the documentation and it said that some

HELP with Sound Card

I am currently running Debian bo and wanted to compile sound support. My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). The card works fine under dos with the following settings: SB 16io=0x220, irq=10, dma=1 MPU-401 io=0x330, irq=2 In

SCSI Emulation for IDE???

I too had faced this problem when I wanted to burn a cd on my ide cd-rw (hp7100i). One of the suggestions was to use a kernel later than 2.1.74. Since I could not compile the kernel 2.1.94 on my bo system, I compiled the 2.0.32 kernel with scsi emulation enabled. If you are planning to burn the